Getting Ahead of Crime Using GIS
Monday June 30th 2008Filed Under Crime Mapping
Sara Barbour from Miller/McCune magazine writes a summary article on the use of GIS to predict criminal behavior. The start of the article reviews a crime case in which spatial analysis was used to pinpoint and subsequently arrest a sex offender in Toronto. Manny San Pedro, an officer with that police force is quoted as saying “If you have a crime analysis unit and you are not using spatial analysis, you are missing a key component.” The article also delves into how a generation raised on Google Maps will maybe one day find spatial thinking added to their curriculums.
Read more: GIS: Cops Favor New Kind of Plotting
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Journalistopia’s Crime Mapping Directory Crime Mapping – Step by Step Crime Mapping – Social Science Computer Review Goodbye Chicagocrime.org, Hello EveryBlock Chicago Crime Mapping Research Conference – New Orleans, LA – August 19-22, 2009
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